Before I tell you how the new Planet 9 may
improve our love lives and radically alter our finances for the
better, I must ask you to read the following cosmic Health and
Safety disclaimer!

Astronomers measure the sky and all objects
within it. Astrologers read meaning into those measurements.
Astronomy is a science. Astrology is a belief system.
Astronomers don't need astrologers but astrologers
would be helpless without astronomers.

Now we're clear that I am an astrologer, not an
astronomer, let us turn to why the 'new' giant gas planet at the
most remote extreme of our solar system could (eventually) herald
the end of money as we currently know it, a time when the whole
human race revels in unprecedented prosperity - and the emergence
of a more loving, trusting society!

To explain why I feel able to make such a bold
prediction I should point out the huge symbolism in the way this
new planet has been announced. The news comes from an impeccable
source. Yet there's no tangible, physical proof. Not even a fuzzy
snapshot or a little blip from the dish of a radio telescope. All
they have, to back any of this up, are a set of hard sums, the
likes of which only a doctor of maths could properly
understand.

The vast majority of us must take this entirely
on trust. There's an element, here, of what some might call
'mystical resonance'. Unless there's a radical advance in
telescope technology, getting proof, say the scientists, will be
like 'searching for a needle in a haystack by looking down the
end of a drinking straw!' All they're sure of is that there must
be a needle. How interesting then, that in the moment of first
appearance, this mysterious new planet is inviting us all to take
a leap of faith and believe what previously seemed entirely
unbelievable!

Astrologers, by the way, have long had such
faith. We knew it would only be a matter of time before a new
planet was discovered and have been cautiously nervously
expecting it to surface any decade now. Has that now happened?
The answer remains in debate. The experts tell us we may
need to wait five years before we get the full
evidence. "\Five Years? Wasn't that one of David Bowie's
seminal songs? Might there be some synergy here? Some
internet mystics already seem to think so. Could this, indeed, be
the very same 'Blackstar' that he prophesied with the title of
the album that he released to coincide with his
death?

If you think that sounds far-fetched, I dread
to tell you what this planet apparently means to other conspiracy
theorists. Many, for years, have been insisting that the world is
about to rediscover Nibiru, an enormous heavenly body on an
eccentric, 360,000-year orbit which was known to the ancient
Babylonians. They too, have been using the phrase Planet X and
they have indeed, also been insisting it will show up any moment
now... causing the Earth's magnetic poles to flip, wreaking untold
chaos on the whole human race. I mention this only to insist -
with all the authority that anyone in my ethereal line of work
ever dare muster - that whatever this new planet IS, it
isn't this!

That, indeed, is why proper astrologers are
keen to ensure we all keep referring to it under the working
title of Planet 9! It is a herald of positive
transformation, not a portent of doom. As for what Planet 9
may eventually be known as - that's always a job for the
International Astronomical Union, who famously take their time
about this task. Astrologers, by long tradition, accept that the
astronomers who do the naming are being inadvertently guided by a
force more magical than they realise. The new arrival may briefly
pick up an interim popular nickname and there may be some clue,
in that, about its eventual relationship with the zeitgeist. But
patient, wise astrologers will wait for the IAU and take whatever
they choose as a clue, all in itself, into the meaning of this
new planet.

What influence WILL it have? Again, my
colleagues would prefer to wait for the name and study the
mythology that will be attached to this. But there are clues in
the changing circumstances we see in the world around us right
now. Remember, please, there's yet no tangible proof of
Planet 9. You've either got to believe in it... or not! In this
very situation, I and many other astrologers hear a whispered
message, from on high, about the imminent birth of a new
universal belief system! That may not have quite such a lofty,
spiritual implication as you may think. As many students of
economics have often observed, money is a mysterious, intangible,
abstract force that only has power thanks to the continued belief
of billions! A religion, in a way, all of its
own.

Yet notice how Planet 9 has arrived at a
time when the priests of prosperity are panicking. World stock
exchanges are in almost unprecedented turmoil. The commodities
market is being turned upside down. Traditionally safe bets are
clearly safe no longer. Many, even in the most conventional
corridors of power, are privately wondering if it is time for the
whole human race to review its relationship with money?
Futuristic philosophers, the world over, have long been saying
how we need to outgrow a very narrow way of establishing value
and replace this with a more sophisticated way to gauge
worth? This planet, we astrologers feel, is telling us that
the day to instigate such a change is nearer than we think - and
that the current financial nadir is another reason for us to
review our system!

There may also be a message from the sky
to us all about the enormous, global refugee crisis? Many believe
this is not a situation that can be resolved by dropping bombs or
deploying troops. People are dying in squalor and starvation, not
just because of misplaced beliefs but because of international
fears relating to borders, barriers and boundaries. Isn't there
an echo, in that, of how our personal love lives often get into
trouble when we don't feel able to trust one another? What if a
situation is asking us to love, trust and 'make space' for
someone - yet, to do this, we must first overcome our worry that, if
we do, we'll be overrun, taken advantage of, or even destroyed?
In that respect, Planet 9 can surely be seen as a cosmic
message about the need to take a leap of faith with one another.
This might yet have a positive impact on all our hearts... with
happier love lives everywhere as a side effect!

Some, of course, might argue that the refugee
crisis was here before Planet 9 - as were all the ingredients
of the current economic slowdown. This, they may say, proves
there's no connection between the sudden arrival of this new
heavenly force and the changing face of life on Earth. The
counter argument is that the planet has been having an influence
all along!

The question of 'what difference does it make
when the planet is not, technically, actually 'new', may be
best answered by a brief history lesson:

In 1783, two years after William Herschel
discovered a new planet through a home-made telescope in his back
garden, experts were still debating what to call it when two
French brothers built a hot air balloon. Humans flew for the
first time ever, and Uranus, the sky god, came into our lives,
just as we needed a new planetary symbol to stand for an
unprecedented miracle.

In 1846, Neptune was discovered using a similar
process of mathematical deduction to the one recently used to
identify Planet 9. At much the same moment in history,
photography became possible - and from that, moving pictures
changed the world again.

We have every reason to expect that, with a
newly discovered planet, there should be new technology. A new
way for the human race to think about what's possible and to
drop, therefore, its old ideas about what's
impossible.

Might this then, all mean: 'Teleportation, here
we come?' It might. I certainly means we're all about to see
the world change in wonderful ways we never dreamed of. Planet
9, whatever it eventually gets named, moves too slowly through
the zodiac to be an indicator of anyone's daily progress through
life. We're not yet sure of its orbit but it may well spend over
2,000 years in some zodiac signs. That means both my mother and
my youngest baby grandson will have been born with Planet 9 at
precisely the same point in the zodiac.

As an individual significator, it is therefore
limited. But as an auspicious omen, suggesting that a generation
of billions, all over the planet, are now destined to enjoy a far
brighter future, it is most potent... and most welcome!